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Originally Posted by Keith
3. All for expanding the roster, especially the game day roster. As for a minor league, it's called NCAA. MLB and NBA drafts high school players; NFL does not.
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While the NCAA is definitely the NFL's talent pool, I think the practice squads are closer to being the NFL's minor league, since that's where young players are sent for seasoning and to wait for their chance at the big time. While I wouldn't have a problem with a minor league similar to the NBA's D-League, the fact is that every time that has been tried with football, going back to the WLAF in the early 90s, it's been a commercial failure. The NFL ought to expand the practice squads since that would have many advantages over a minor league -- much cheaper than creating a bunch of teams that not enough people want to see, the players are coached in the teams' systems by the teams' own coaches, less injury risk, as scout teamers they cut down on practice wear and tear on the roster players, etc.
07-01-2010, 08:59 PM
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